CVE-2011-3869

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.003 · 27 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.34% (27th) EPSS

CVSS 6.3 · medium

Is it mine?

26 products

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .k5login file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.3mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 9.2

v2.05.4mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

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Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-8c56-v25w-f89cPuppet arbitrary file overwrite2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .k5login file.

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

Which sources assert this record, and when.

published 2011-10-27modified 2026-06-16

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